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RSchneider

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How about 50 at $12K each? In any business, you don't make a product and expect it to produce a profit when you are just using it for promotion. If you can accomplish that, then you hit the best business plan ever invented. Think about it. Get a profit for advertising and making the product. Who wouldn't want to be in on that?

As for the fleet Elios, any news on that? We are 2 months out from when that was going to be activated. I suspect it'll never happen. Even if it does, you don't sell pre production product to businesses. You give it to them for a certain period of time and then use it as cross promotion. Think about it, when you go to the dentist and they give you a free toothbrush, floss and toothpaste, do you really expect that they paid for it and are giving it you you because they are nice guys? Nope. Companies like P&G give it to them in hopes you like the product and thus, you buy it.
 
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Anyone still seeing gasbuddy ads? I wonder how these helped.

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RSchneider said:
How about this. The powers here present Elio with this marketing plan. Have a contest where current Elio All-Ins on this site will submit a two page presentation on how they could promote Elio. This would be because Elio would build 100 pre production cars and have them ready in March. They would be given out to the people in various geographical areas of the country that have the best proposals. In trade for getting a pre production Elio, they have to go to various events and promote the product. Then just go for a drive on the weekends and hang out where many people are. When they come up, you talk up the product (this is what many car companies do right now). You have to post regularly on social media as to what you are doing. You get to keep the car until production starts in 2018, then you get a free production unit and they take away the pre production unit.

Cheap marketing and it really gets the word out.
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That was always my plan no matter when I receive my Elio. Brand ambassador.
 
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You and I are 100%
Doug McDow said:
I don't believe that Elio needs to spend money to advertise. They just need to get an Elio in our hands and we will be all the advertising that they will need!
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You and I are 100% in agreement. I am retired . Get me mine I will run my Grandchildren around in it. Let granddaughter drive it to college some. Show it off. ELIO would not need one paid ad if they got some of them out to people like me.
As for the 65,000 reservation, that is meaningless just a number . Not sure why anyone waste their time with it.
Yes go back a while I watched it everyday. Thinking Elio was on the way. The number became meaningless.
Still hope to see Elio #8019 someday but gave up the reserved parking space in the Garage.
Now fills Elio parking spot.
 
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Maybe my second son will get mine. He heads to college in July, his brother is paying for his own car right now that his mom and I co-signed for. I wanted an Elio really bad but given the change in my situation and the Deer Magnet starting to need a lot of down time for major repairs that weren't cost effective...i junked it and bought a hyundai accent instead.
 
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